Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A living body considered as a mass of matter; bodily bulk, especially of a person: as, his huge corporosity.
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Examples
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To do this, says the mahatma, I have merely to separate your astral forms from your bodies; then to return them, each into the others 'corporosity.
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With that affectionateness so peculiar to people when they arrive at the sentimental stage of intoxication, although it was with the greatest difficulty that he could sustain his own corporosity, he was tenderly trying to direct the zigzag footsteps of his companion, a little withered-up, weird-looking Chileño.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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Thus we have made out the skeleton and entire corporosity of the scarecrow, with the exception of its head, and this was admirably supplied by a somewhat withered and shriveled pumpkin, in which Mother Rigby cut two holes for the eyes and a slit for the mouth, leaving a bluish-colored knob in the middle to pass for a nose.
Short Stories of Various Types Various
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I have the clearest recollection of G.K. C. seated ponderously at the table, drinking champagne by magnums, continually feeding his face with food which, as he was constantly employed in the most dazzling and epigrammatic conversation, was apt to fall from his fork and rebound from his corporosity, until the fragments disappeared under the table.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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Sir S. very like old Mrs. Prime, three chins, and such a corporosity! ...
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915
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He was a tall man, with gray hair that became him well, with sharp black eyes, and enough flesh on his bones to carry the frock-coats he always wore and give him a corporosity just escaping the portly.
A Certain Rich Man William Allen White 1906
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I can neither squat nor jump, and a boy could hit my corporosity as easy as a barn door.
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Page 66 doubt, but I have heard wise men affirm that laughing was the fat man's safety-valve, that if he did not laugh and shake and vibrate frequently, he would grow fatter and fatter, until his epidermic cuticle could not contain his oleaginous corporosity.
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Señora Montfort permitted her lofty spirit to assert itself more strongly than her delicate corporosity was able to endure, and fell into violent hystericality.
Rita Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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The use, I ask you, of addressing intelligent remarks to such a corporosity?
Rita Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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